1 Month Update

Ho-hum. Where is my forever family?

First of all - I apologize to whomever might have been looking for Coltrane at last week's Chantilly Open House. We missed the hubbub due to a sudden change in our schedule.

Therefore, Coltrane is sleeping over at Sasha's house (see Feb 16th) this weekend. He will go to at least one of the two open houses and not miss out on the butt-sniffing:

Open House at Wylie Wagg
Date: March 15, 2008
Time: 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location: Fairfax Corner Center 11889 Grand Commons Ave. Fairfax VA 22030

Open House at the Falls Church Petsmart
Date: March 16, 2008
Time: 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Location: Falls Church Petsmart 6100 Arlington Blvd Falls Church VA 22044

Meanwhile, Jon and I are going to be in the suburbs of Philadelphia visiting his family and sitting through his little sister's middle school musical. I got her a little gift to show her that I love her in spite of the fact that I hate musicals and will have a unfortunate grimace on my face throughout the whole presentation.

What does not make me grimace is Coltrane! He is a total love. Coltrane is bouncy and playful, and is now perfectly adept at sharing toys with the other dogs. Iris even snatched the wool turtle toy right out from his mouth the other day! He happily let her take his toy and grabbed another toy instead. Coltrane has a hilarious helicopter tail and has even charmed his way into Burnie's (a.k.a., "Miss Boys-Have-Cooties") good graces.

OK. I admit it. Coltrane is our fifth foster and the first that we seriously considered adopting. He is just a great dog: a great family member, a great animal sibling, and has a supremely velvety forehead. We finally decided against it because Coltrane would make the perfect greyhound introduction to a first-time greyhound owner or family.